What Have You Done To Your 2nd Gen Tacoma Today?

velillen · Jul 7, 2014

MTopp said: ↑

Yeah here's a link. They're $315 from headstrong for 5100s front and rear, free shipping.

http://www.headstrongoffroad.com/struts-and-coils-tacoma-05-6-lug.html
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Be sure to call or email them too! Marie and Robert are very knowledgeable and will make sure you get everything you need for your left . Can even make recommendations and work things out for ya too. Great people to work with

kbraunphoto · Jul 7, 2014

Subtracted the mud flaps. My girl thought the truck was lifted after that.
I may modify them, we'll see what I like better.

RileyLAFD · Jul 7, 2014

kbraunphoto said: ↑

Subtracted the mud flaps. My girl thought the truck was lifted after that.
I may modify them, we'll see what I like better.
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Pictures!!!

TacomaTC · Jul 7, 2014

New rear bumper!

InTheRough · Jul 7, 2014

FOR ANYONE WITH LIFETIME LED LIGHTS:

I have been noticing a Flicker with my Lifetime LED headlights so I emailed them. This is their responce:

We have recently discovered an issue with the CREE chips that are used in our H4
headlight replacements. We will warranty The H4 replacement but we can not use
the current chipset model that we have. The New chipsets will arrive in a couple
weeks and we will replace any defective H4 headlights with a new set. We are
sorry for any inconvenience this may cause but we want you to have the best
quality product. We will keep you informed on when they should be ready to ship.

Manwithoutaplan · Jul 7, 2014

TacomaTC said: ↑

New rear bumper!

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looks good man. ANy other angle shots of the bumper.

LUSETACO · Jul 7, 2014

Made my own off road flag and pole from an old Firestik and a flag I found from a bike trailer.

RustyBucket · Jul 7, 2014

velillen said: ↑

Is it only the off-road models that have the option on the dash to turn the passenger airbag off? I know on mine ive turned the airbag for the passenger off but it still beeps which is annoying
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I have a 5 lugger and it has the passenger airbag deactivation switch as well as the RSCA off button. It's a Canadian model if that makes any difference

LUSETACO · Jul 7, 2014

Free "cargo net"

Dragons Taco · Jul 7, 2014

TacomaTC said: ↑

New rear bumper!

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What's with the blue winglets? Or am I seeing something wrong?

TRSJimmy · Jul 7, 2014

Dragons Taco said: ↑

What's with the blue winglets? Or am I seeing something wrong?
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They're d ring isolators

Dragons Taco · Jul 7, 2014

I see those. Now that you point it out. I'm talking the square piece I see on both ends. One closest to the cam appears blue, but could be a reflection. Need a rear view

tmreyes1 · Jul 7, 2014

Over the weekend Installed some stuff

Brute Force HC rear bumper (yes i did cut the exhaust)

All Pro Expo leaf pack, Extended brake lines and extended 5100's

LUSETACO · Jul 7, 2014

Raised the bed lights.

Before...

After...

timmytoast · Jul 7, 2014

Dragons Taco said: ↑

I see those. Now that you point it out. I'm talking the square piece I see on both ends. One closest to the cam appears blue, but could be a reflection. Need a rear view
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The bumper is painted to match the truck I believe.

RileyLAFD · Jul 7, 2014

Anytime Fog Light Mod!!!!

squint0241 · Jul 7, 2014

RileyLAFD said: ↑

Anytime Fog Light Mod!!!!
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Does that tuck in alright?

tacodane · Jul 7, 2014

Of course it does. Nice and snug. Won't even know its there

RileyLAFD · Jul 7, 2014

nd4spdbh said: ↑

Back story:
Well as we all know, there are various ways to do the fog light any time mod, from splicing to some wire in the main harness and having to bend one of the legs of the fog light relay etc etc.

I didnt like any of that for the very reason i could not go back to 100% stock. I didnt want to bend the leg on the relay and i didnt want to splice into the harness... why? Truck is brand new and if i wanted to take her into the dealer i wanted to be able to put it 100% back to stock without having to buy a second non bent factory relay. So i got to thinking and took some ideas from some other variants on the fog light anytime mod and came up with this described below... truth be told im surprised no one has done this before.

ACTUAL MOD:

Essentially i created 4 extensions with some male and female blade crimp connectors.

3 of these extensions go back into the original socket where the fog light relay went, colors are of the wires i used to extend the harness:

(GREEN) the switched ground thats activated by the switch in the dash

(WHITE) constant 12v from battery

(YELLOW) Switched 12v to the fog lights

The last extension (BROWN) goes to a switched on ignition 12v hot, this can be pulled from many places, But its exceptionally easy to grab it from the big AC relay for the dc-ac inverter... its EVEN EASIER on the tacomas (mine is a 13 DCSB TRD OR) which have the external small relay box which just so happens to have the Fog light relay and AC inverter relay.

Simply make the extension with a thin blade connector and bend it so the barrel part of the crimp connector clears the relay. And walla... done, fog lights that you can turn on any time the key is in the on position regardless of what light mode you are in, fog lights that turn off with the key, AND fog lights that dont randomly turn on for a minute every 4 hours for some test procedure.

Modifications / Variations on the original Mod

If you do not have a dc-ac converter relay, check post 15 for an alternate source for a switched 12v

If you want the fogs to turn on / off when switched to headlights regardless of high or low beam, check post 39 for the variation

Notes:

A standard width blade connector will not fit into the stock ground socket (green wire to relay box), simply take a pair of snips and chop off some width of the connector. The main power (white) and (yellow) are full width and you will have no issues.

The AC-DC inverter relay works in an interesting way, You can use my pictures below to see which leg you need to pull off of for a truck with the external relay box, but if you are doing this mod on a truck where the fog light / ac-dc inverter relay is in the main fuse box double check which one is actually the switched 12v on ignition for the dc-ac relay. Reason i say this is, with the key off both of the legs of the relay that operate the switch of the relay will read 0 volts, put the key in and turn it on both of the legs will read 12v (wtf?!?! you might say), Press the ac-dc inverter switch on the dash and one of those legs drops to 0 volts and switches the relay on... YOU DO NOT want the leg that drops to 0 when the dash button is pressed... you want the leg that goes to 12v when the key is on and stays at 12v when the ac-dc inverter is pressed.

No extra inline fuses are necessary... they would be pointless as everything is already fused to begin with. This will not blow any fuses as the extra draw from the hot from the ac-dc relay is probably less than a TENTH of an amp.

For a picture of how the bent male blade connector is placed in the relay socket see the first attached picture in post 15

All in all it took about 4x as long to write up this thread compared to actually doing the mod.

1st pic is showing where the wires are going

2nd pic shows how the male blade connector is bent so it will fit in the proper socket along with the AC-DC relay

3 pic shows the relay tucked away in its new home.

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YES, Check this out!

Manwithoutaplan · Jul 7, 2014

I really need to do this.

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